Posts by SOE Solent

8 members and 3 guests attended the informal Solent Branch observation evening on 19 June. In the period 14:55 to 18:45 nine freights were seen.   The 5 Freightliner workings were…

On an overcast and windy Saturday 20 members and 2 visitors spent a couple of hours walking around the works. It was a very interesting visit with the regular guides…

For our May meeting member Mark Greening took us back to the early 1990s in the South of England. He began by looking at passenger services where slam door emus…

The March meeting was a presentation by Tony Storey with the title “Railway Miscellany” in which he visited a number of heritage railways. The first part of the talk surveyed…

We welcomed Andy Davies, Chief Archivist of the RCTS to our February meeting to speak about the history of Leatherhead station and the station master’s house, and the RCTS library…

The January meeting of the Solent Branch on 17 January began with the branch’s annual general meeting. The Committee elected for the coming year were John Godfrey (Chairman), Denis Horsman…

Our December meeting consisted of members’ slides and digital images with contributions from 10 members. The evening began with Philip Haines showing videos taken on the branch observation evening at…

The November meeting of the Solent branch was a series of videos filmed by branch member Philip Haines under the title “Northern Trains”, this being used to refer to the…